My story

  freshmen, fall freshmen, winter freshmen, spring sophomore, fall Here we are writing my year 2 winter quarter post, this quarter literally flew by and honestly not much happened. It's actually crazy how chilled out this quarter was, let's talk about that! Living off-campus Not much to talk about here that I haven't already gone over. I'm like settled in now and everything, like honestly everything is the same im trying to reflect on anything and like the overall update is that there's no update that's kinda the theme of this whole blog post too 💀. I have been going to play basketball a lot more this quarter like 2-3x a week consistently and the runs have been pretty good and ive met a lot of ppl thru it. My confidence is honestly not that good in the full court runs like bro I sometimes miss open layups for no reason but ive also had some highlight plays like some great help defense where i steal the ball or some floaters and jumpers. I also go on runs quite ...

  So this weekend hosted by UCSC's CruzHacks, my team attended CruzHacks 2025. It was a really fun experience where going into it I didn't know what to expect. This really isn't my niche, as when it comes to coding I'm mainly an expert on the algorithms & data structures aka competitive programming. It involves solving algorithmic problems, writing solutions, optimizing them for the time constraints and test cases, and a lot of practice and studying and preparation. And so it's quite different and quite sweaty, and it was really cool to experience these hackathons which is this different side of programming. ICPC stuff and the performance is also way more measurable than hackathons, where theres a lot more creativity and flexibility involved. Surprisingly this is my first ever hackathon, despite almost like every cs kid doing one in high school and stuff.   Our team was me, my housemate named evan, and a friend named austin. We didnt have a 4th. The venue was th...